Index card carrier



March 22, 1932.

G. H. DAWSON 1,850,278

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I'ZQL Patented .Mar. 22, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIce? COMPANY, OFCHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INDEX CARD CARRIERApplication filed January 14, 1929. Serial No. 332,452.

This invention relates to a card carrier which is adapted for sustaininga card in a visible overlapping index and concerns itself with a novelstructure from which the card can be readily detached or to which it canbe easily applied.

The invention comprises the novel structure and combination of partshereinafter described and more particularly pointed out and defined inthe appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate a preferred embodiment ofthis invention and in which similar reference numerals refer to similarfeatures in the different views:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a portion of the card carrier.

Figure 2 is an edge view of the part of the carrier shown in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is an enlarged fragmentary partsectional and part-perspectiveview of the carrier.

Figure 4 is an enlarged fragmentary and perspective View of the carrier.

Figure 5 is an enlargedfragmentary'per- 1 spective view of thereinforcement of the carrier.

The card carrier involving this invention consists of a main sheet-metalmember 1 having offset card-engaging hooks 2 struck therefrom. Thesehooks extend toward each other and are adapted for fitting in aperturesin a card which is adapted to lie-suspended thereon by a slight, flexingmovement. The main part 1 of the carrier has a pair of rearwardlystruck-out ton ues 3 for a purpose that will later appear. The ends ofthe main part of the carrier are bowed or curved longitudinally asindicated at 4 for the purpose of retaining them in a tray as showfn inmy copending application Serial No. 332,..53, filed June 14, 1929. Tothe main part of the carrier 1 there is welded or secured a reinforcingmember 5, a portion of which is shown in Figure 5. This reinforcingmember consists of a metal strip having a curled-up edge as indicated at6. In assembling the main portion of the carrier with the reinforcingmember, the said reinforcing member is applied to the rear upper edge ofthe main portion of the carrier with its lower edge abutting the struckout tongues 3 which serve the purpose of aligning the reinforcing member5. The fiat part 7 of the reinforcing member may be welded or secured inany suitable way to the upper rear surface of the main member 1. Thisreinforcing member will impart sufficient rigidity to the carrier toprevent the same from readily flexing. The rigidity of the holder isespecially desirable in an index system in which the cards are adaptedto be regrouped or transferred from one tray to another. Further, inregrouping or tansferring the cards the tongues 3 of one carrier willengage the carrier therebelow and prevent the carriers from piling oneupon the other.

I am aware that many changes may be made and numerous details ofconstruction may be varied through a wide range without departing fromthe principles of this invention, and I therefore do not purposelimiting the patent granted hereon otherwise than necessitated by theprior art.

I claim as my invention:

1. A card carrier comprising a metal strip having forwardly offsetcard-supporting hooks and rearwardly extending tongues and a reinforcingmember secured to the rear surface of said strip with its inner edgeabutting said tongues.

52. A card carrier comprising a metal strip having forwardly offsetcard-supporting hooks. rearwardly extending tongues and curved resilientterminals and a reinforcing member secured to the rear surface of saidstrip with its inner edge alined by said tongues. I

3. A card carrier comprising a metal strip, having curved resilientterminals extending in a longitudinal direction and forwardly offsetcard-supporting hooks and means for reinforcing said carrier.

4. A card carrier comprising a metal strip 5 having forwardly oifsetcard-engaging hooks,

and rearwardly projecting abutments and a reinforcing member secured tothe rearsurface of said strip with its inner edge in a1inement with saidahutments.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name at Cambridge,Middlesex County Massachusetts.

GEORGE H. DAWSON.

